Mexican-American playwright Karen Zacarías estimates that half of Old West cowboys after the Civil War were Black or Hispanic. Yet their presence has been largely unaccounted for in classic ...

He was America’s most famous painter of the Old West. But where was he to go when the Old West was gone? Frederic Remington went to Florida, and he didn’t like what he saw. He favored cowboys ...

and the bad guys black ones, just to make things simple. But the hats movie-cowboys tend to wear are nothing like the ones people really sported in the Old West. The 'ten-gallon', with its wide ...

Born into enslavement in 1854 in Tennessee, Love — also known by his nickname, Red River Dick — was among the first and most famous Black cowboys of the Old West. Historians estimate that from ...